Like was said before, ground is around 4 weeks long. You are in class Monday through Saturday from 8 til 5. You stay in the Plains Hotel. It's like 100 years old and some of the rooms are a decent size and some are insanely tiny. Depending on what side of the building you're on, it's impossible to oversleep (I'd say more but would hate to spoil the fun). The company pays for the hotel and you'll have a roommate. Once you finish ground, you go to the paper tiger for a couple days. Our class was big enough that we had 3 weeks of sim sessions. The better you do on tests/quizzes in ground school, the quicker you're off to sim. I am in the first sim session with five other guys. There are 6 more in the sim next week and 2 people the week after that. You generally get 6 days in the sim but the sim in Greeley was broken when we went there so we had to move down to Denver and only get 4 days in the sim now. After sim we go to the airplane for familiarization and some more training for a couple of days in the plane. Then we take the checkride and if we pass that, it's off to IOE at some point.